The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised its recommendations for the popular antidepressant, Celexa (citalopram hydrobromide). Last August, the FDA warned Celexa should be limited to doses no greater than 40 mg per day because of a risk of abnormal electrical activity in the heart known as Torsade […]
Category: Defective Drugs
It’s little known and rarely applied but the Park doctrine does allow the U.S. government to file a misdemeanor criminal charge against corporate officials even if they didn’t intend to violate any law. The law is based on the conviction of a Mr. John Park, who owned Acme Markets, a […]
On March 26, 2012, Searcy Denney filed two additional individual lawsuits against Bayer Corporation, the manufacturer of Yasmin and Yaz. One of the new cases was filed on behalf of a married Texas woman who works as a Head Start teacher. She started taking Yasmin in 2008, and quickly developed […]
If I sell you a product and make a profit from selling that product; do I owe a duty to you for the reasonable safety of that product? Most reasonable people would agree that a company should not be permitted to simply ignore the safety of products it profits from […]
March has been a busy month for new filings in the national litigation efforts involving bisphosphonate drug-induced femur fractures. Currently, there are coordinated state court proceedings pending in Atlantic City, New Jersey as well as Southern California involving the manufacturers of Fosamax, Boniva, and other osteoporosis drugs. There are also […]
A recently unsealed complaint filed by whistleblower Helen Ge reveals that over four years, Takeda Pharmaceuticals failed to report to the FDA congestive heart failure cases in patients taking Actos. Takeda manufactures the Type II diabetes drug Actos. Actos is the third in a long line of failed Type II […]
Published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery is a shocking report detailing the death of an elderly gentleman who had begun taking Pradaxa (Dabigatran) just one month earlier. Three University of Utah doctors (Garber, Sivakumar and Schmidt) report that the man died from catastrophic, irreversible brain hemorrhage after suffering a […]
In yet another embarrassing moment for our United States regulatory authorities and medical establishment, doctors in New Zealand have written an open letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlighting the extreme danger posed by the drug Pradaxa. As we have written before, Pradaxa is Takeda Pharmaceutical’s solution […]
Searcy Denney has filed another individual lawsuit against Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and Teva Pharmaceuticals in state court in New Jersey through local counsel. This latest case was filed on behalf of a St. Augustine woman who ingested bisphosphonate drugs for more than 10 years, including Fosamax as well […]
A case alleging failure to warn, strict liability, breach of warranty, and negligence was filed today by Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer of Searcy Denney in the state court proceedings before Judge Higbee in New Jersey against Merck, Watson Laboratories, and Teva Pharmaceuticals. The lawsuit alleges that a 64 year […]
